. Bees for pleasure and profit; a guide to the manipulation of bees, the production of honey, and the general management of the apiary. Bees. THE PEODUCTION OF COMB HONEY. 43 of their hive, and, next time they were flying, would return to the old spot, fly round and round it, and fall at last from exhaustion, never to rise again. The bees in each hive should have been reduced to only just as many frames as they can well cover, which in the spring will probably not be more than two or three for a very weak stock. How to Unite. When the hives are standing close together, smoke each of them thoro
. Bees for pleasure and profit; a guide to the manipulation of bees, the production of honey, and the general management of the apiary. Bees. THE PEODUCTION OF COMB HONEY. 43 of their hive, and, next time they were flying, would return to the old spot, fly round and round it, and fall at last from exhaustion, never to rise again. The bees in each hive should have been reduced to only just as many frames as they can well cover, which in the spring will probably not be more than two or three for a very weak stock. How to Unite. When the hives are standing close together, smoke each of them thoroughly; and when the bees have had time to gorge themselves, examine one of the hives and remove the queen (the youngest and most prolific queen will of course be the one to be retained) ; then sprinkle some thin syrup over the bees in both hives, and place the frames of the one hive alternately between those of the other. In place of thin syrup, the bees may be .sprinkled with flour from an ordinary flour dredger, which method generally proves entirely successful. The empty hive must now be taken away, and the other placed midway between the places where"the two hives have just If the bees are at all inclined to rob, uniting must be per- formed towards the evening of some fine, warm day. It is well, as a matter of precaution, to cage the queen in a " pipe cover cage " (fig. 28), pressed down on some cells of un-. Fig. 28.—Pipe Cover Queen Cage. capped honey in the hive, for twenty-four or forty-eight hours, lest the strange bees should kill her. During the honey flow, however, it will be found quite needless to remove either of the queens or to cage them, as the bees at such a time unite very amicably if simply gorged with honey, and soon settle for them- selves which queen they will keep ; but should one queen be older than the other, it would of course be well to remove her. How to Find the Queen. To find the queen it is necessary to remove the frames
Size: 1626px × 1536px
Photo credit: © Library Book Collection / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bo, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1920, booksubjectbees, bookyear1921
